History People - All Change

Chichester City Arts Centre

Hard as it is to believe today, before the coming of the railway to Sussex in the 1840s, this county was underpopulated and poor. Many emigrated, despairing that the good times would ever return and hoping for better things in a new land overseas. Yet, by the 1850s, the railway was transforming the fortunes of Sussex, employment opportunities were increasing, and with the new jobs came higher wages. Small, insignificant little villages like Worthing, Littlehampton, and Bognor, became bustling seaside resorts. While horticulture increasingly displaced traditional agriculture. A Sussex man or woman of 1900 had very different and improved expectations of their forebears of 1800; and it was the railway that delivered the change.General Admission: £9https://www.tickettailor.com/events/historypeople/2024763